forget
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This comes after Earl Spencer claimed the then-Prince Charles said, referring to Diana, "we'll forget her soon enough" days after she died.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
And he never will forget getting a call from a woman whose dog had just died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
King Charles is accused of insensitively saying to Earl Spencer, in the wake of Diana's death in 1997, that "we'll forget her soon enough", according to excerpts published in the Daily Mail.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
It’s not hard to imagine this situation getting worse, but don’t forget who’s in control.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
Don’t forget to breathe when you feel nervous, and don’t forget to breathe when you’re freaking out like she was doing now.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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"He has no phone or wallet with him and probably forgets the name of the hotel," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
It seems likely that with each passing year, humanity collectively forgets more of its cultural heritage than it manages to learn anew.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
That is, until Tom forgets his jacket inside the bookstore.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
There’s a great accidental gag in a cut bit from the original MTV pilot when a deputy pulls up to arrest Knoxville and forgets to put her car in park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
“Sometimes history remembers people who don’t deserve it and forgets the ones who do,” Ridge said.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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And they both forgat the Sundering Flood, and how they should never meet, as they sat each side of the fearful water, and the tale and sweet speech sped to and fro betwixt them.
From The Sundering Flood by May Morris
Then by her kisses did she know he frowned, But close about him her fair arms she wound, Until for happiness he 'gan to smile, And in those arms forgat all else awhile.
From The Earthly Paradise A Poem by William Morris
But the blood cried against them from the ground, and the Gods forgat them not.
From Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred John Church
But when Richard Cameron began to speak, I easily forgat everything else.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Kate forgat her leg, and Jack his mowes, and all we, stag and hunters alike, ran to the gallery window for to gaze.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
While watching a video of a pastry class I took, I realized I forgot the name of the dessert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The thermostat had been set to 71 degrees Fahrenheit and a worker forgot to turn off the air-conditioning.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Sometimes he portrays her as a shrew, whining last year about how he’d be “in trouble” if he forgot to mention their anniversary during a speech.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
He noted that while her star grew, she "never forgot where she came from" and always gave back through her philanthropic efforts.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Sometimes they still forgot, but he reminded them each time, and they were learning.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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"The compassion shown by all of you will never be forgotten by us, and brought us comfort and strength at the darkest time of our lives," the post added.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“The whole idea of Spyland was that people were sent here to be forgotten, to be expunged from record,” one of the newer inmates observes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The discovery raises the possibility that other coral ecosystems along West Africa may have been overlooked, forgotten, or never documented in the first place.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
“And by extension, she’s all of our mama.... She may have forgotten me twice, but we will always remember her.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
I’d conveniently forgotten what I’d said to her back on the dock.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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Congress shouldn’t honor the first Roosevelt lesson by forgetting the second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Whereas the poem ends with order restored, the film leaves history caught in an endless cycle of collapse, rebirth and forgetting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
But queer clubs were never only about forgetting.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
The UK's first billionaire sportsman has been in so many adverts from Home Depot to Bank of America, you could be forgiven for forgetting what brand he is actually representing.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
“How about me?” chimed in Mawuli, forgetting to cover his mouth this time.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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